#52weeknailchallenge: smoosh

Wedding plans are in full swing at the moment. And I keep having to check that I'm not forgetting something. And since everything is basically costing an arm and a leg, no more pretties for me until then.

For today's mani I wanted to have some contrasting colours. So I started with a coat of Toy apple smoothie on all my nails, not worrying about opacity as I was going to smoosh over it.

I then blobbed apple smoothie, Color Club wild cactus and Fair maiden come what may on a stamper and smooshed it on my nails. Adding some more polish as I went along.

I'm quite happy with how this turned out. I had a couple of people ask me how I did it and a couple more compliments. What do you think? Should I have added something?

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#52weeknailchallenge: plaid

This is a difficult prompt for me... Because BF is pedantic about small details. And it's been pointed out that some designs that's been done, is not plaid, but tartan. So I ended up googling the difference and came to the conclusion that it's the same damn thing! (It's not quite, but this made me happy.) While I was googling the difference, I came across this image and I was inspired.

So I started with two coats of Color Club wild cactus on all my nails. This is such a pretty colour and we all know that I'm a sucker for a nice green.

I then stamped a layerable plaid image from Lina winter 3 with a Born Pretty navy (I think it's #7) and the layered image with Mundo de Unas reddish.

I stamped another criss cross image from Lina feeling shapely with a Born Pretty gold stamping polish that doesn't have any number.

I'm kinda digging how this turned out, what do you think?

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#52weeknailchallenge: green

I'm thinking that everyone would assume I've been waiting for this prompt. Because green. But I didn't. As much as I love love green, it's not a colour I wear all that often. I tend to lean towards purple and blue more often, even pink!! So when green came around I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

I settled on a smoosh. I started with a coat of Essence L.O.L as a base. I wasn't too worried about it being opaque or not, since smoosh. For the actual smoosh (yeah I'm just gonna say smoosh all the time), I used color club wild cactus, nubar conserve and essence good limes. Surprisingly enough all 3 those polishes were gifted to me by Michelle. She's a keeper.

Once the smoosh was done, I wanted to add something more and I settled for some glitter. I have a couple glitter toppers but almost never know when is the best time to use it. So I thought this would be a good time. I added a coat of Tip Top rocky road. Also, just ignore my thumb... I'm not sure how she slipped in, I only noticed when I was editing and by then it was too late.

I didn't fish for the glitters only for the bigger ones.

What do you think? My phone decided to take a blurry picture and it shows the holo of rocky road so nicely.

It's almost like a green galaxy...

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Friday Triad: Inspired by...

We finally decided on a post name!! So here is the first Friday Triad of the year! It was my turn to choose, so I chose this mani done by Thea over at Madness Nails! I really hope she'll find it in herself to start blogging again one day, because I looooooove her posts. They so funny and quirky and keeps making you go back for more. I wish I had her way with words.

Anyway, so of course I started with one coat of Sinful Colors snow me white on all my nails. Then While that was drying I went one on one with a makeup sponge and tore it to pieces. Aaaand then nothing, since I had to chose the colours I was going to use and I was drawing a blank... Guess that's the downside of owning such a lot of polishes. Too spoilt for choice. BF wasn't much help as I asked him, but eventually I settled on the 5 polishes I would use.

Essence - love is in the air - yellow
Essence - beijos de brazil - green
Orly - 2hr lunch - pink
Color Club - ms socialite - purple
Sinful Colors - rise and shine - teal
Topped with Parental Advisory Polish - happy ending.

I did one colour at a time and sponged it on my nail using the pieces of sponge. Once all of that was kinda dry I used some dotting tools and snow me white to make the dots and top coated.

I wish I could have taken a better picture that shows off the flakiness of happy ending. Even with the flash it doesn't do it any justice.

What do you think? There was quite a few inspirations using this look. I was a bit meh about it, but it quickly grew on me especially with all the compliments I got!! Although it's a little awkward trying to explain to someone how to do it and people requesting to take pictures of it!!


Thanks for reading guys and I look forward to Joyce's choice for next month. Nevermind seeing what they came up with for this!